Last week had the release of GPT-5.1, which I covered on Tuesday.

This week included Gemini 3, Nana Banana Pro, Grok 4.1, GPT 5.1 Pro, GPT 5.1-Codex-Max, Anthropic making a deal with Microsoft and Nvidia, Anthropic disrupting a sophisticated cyberattack operation and what looks like an all-out attack by the White House to force through a full moratorium on and preemption of any state AI laws without any substantive Federal framework proposal.

Among other things, such as a very strong general analysis of the relative position of Chinese open models. And this is the week I chose to travel to Inkhaven. Whoops. Truly I am now the Matt Levine of AI, my vacations force model releases.

Larry Summers resigned from the OpenAI board over Epstein, sure, why not.

So here's how I’m planning to handle this, unless something huge happens.

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Outline:

(01:50) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(02:43) Tool, Mind and Weapon

(06:55) Choose Your Fighter

(07:18) Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility

(11:31) First Things First

(12:12) Grok 4.1

(15:03) Misaligned?

(18:37) Codex Of Ultimate Coding

(20:21) Huh, Upgrades

(20:49) On Your Marks

(22:11) Paper Tigers

(26:26) Overcoming Bias

(31:11) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(31:45) Fun With Media Generation

(33:41) A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

(38:31) They Took Our Jobs

(44:25) On Not Writing

(44:51) Get Involved

(45:46) Introducing

(48:29) In Other AI News

(52:30) Anthropic Completes The Trifecta

(54:08) We Must Protect This House

(59:12) AI Spy Versus AI Spy

(01:05:10) Show Me the Money

(01:08:01) Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble

(01:11:14) Quiet Speculations

(01:12:17) The Amazing Race

(01:17:37) Of Course You Realize This Means War (1)

(01:21:30) The Quest for Sane Regulations

(01:23:42) Chip City

(01:24:31) Of Course You Realize This Means War (2)

(01:30:02) Samuel Hammond on Preemption

(01:36:17) Of Course You Realize This Means War (3)

(01:44:43) The Week in Audio

(01:45:47) It Takes A Village

(01:46:26) Rhetorical Innovation

(01:49:53) Varieties of Doom

(01:50:59) The Pope Offers Wisdom

(01:52:46) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

(01:54:51) Messages From Janusworld

(02:02:05) The Lighter Side

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